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 "Give me six lines written by the most honest of men, and I shall find something in them to hang him."

- Cardinal Richelieu, then Prime Minister of absolutist France.


Selfies and likes and AI-guided cloud services are fun, but in the right hands can easily lead to "fitting-up", entrapment or "conspiracy to XXXXX". And there will be a cherry picked "established pattern of" whatever with which to bury your defence in maliciously-misconstrued evidence.

A person with assets and an extensive Google file is like a ripe fruit ready to be plucked, and by private lawsuits as much as by law enforcement looking to fill up numbers.